Phonograph-record-transfer machine



Jan, 22 9 i924. L48L3 H. L. PAGE I PHONOGRAPH RECORD TRANSFER MACHINEFiled Sept. 12 1921 2 She'ets-Sheet 1 H. L. PAGE PHONOGRAPH RECORDTRANSFER MACHINE lane 22 v 19240 1148mm Patented Jan. 22, R9240 HUWD L.PAGE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

PHQNe rn-nnconn-rnansrna raacnmnl Application med september 12, 1921.Serial Ito. 500,018.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that T, HOWARD L. PAGE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago,'in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented a certain new and useful Improvement inPhonograph-Record-Transfer Machines, of which the following is aspecification.

, The object of this invention is to provide a machine by which aphonographic record on a continuous tape or film, for instance a such arecord as is shown described and claimed in my companion U. S. patentapplication Serial No. 560,221 filed May 11, 1922, may be transferred bythe aid of a needle cutting into a wax or other surface of anotherrecord to such record. The record to which the transfer is made may beof any conventional form, however the particular embodiment of theinvention here shown illustrates such a machine designed for thetransfer to a circular wax disc and it will, therefore, be so described.

In the present method of producing wax or similar surfaced phonographrecords it is necessaryfor the person whose voice is to be reproduced totalk directly to amachine carrying the wax coated record member whichmeans that the record member has to move fast enough to receive thevoice variations which means that the record has to have wax thereon ofa given tenacity to stand the speed. In actual practice under theseconditions a' great many faulty results are produced which cannot beremoved. By making the initial phonographic recordby the photographic,method of said prior application and then using the machine of thepresent invention, "an accurate photographic record can be transferredto the wax of the record,in this particular case a circular disc,

at any'speed desired say one foot perhour if necessary as. distin ishedfrom 40 feet per' minute by the 01 method. thereby insuringsubstantially accurate recording on the wax disc of all voice variationsof the I original photographic record.

The object of the machine isto produce a machine giving this verydesirable result.

The invention consists in a machine'capable of attaining the foregoingobjects which can be. comparatively easily and cheaply built which isvery'accurate and efiicient in its use and is not readily liable togetout ofordera More particularly the invention consists in otherspecial features and details of invention which will be hereafter morefully set forth in the specifications and claims.

Referring to the drawings in which like numerals indicate the same partsthroughout the several views-.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the mechanism illustrating theinventionin its preferred form. I I

Figure 2 is a plan view of the essential center part of the machine ofFig. 1.

Figure 3 is a detail plan view, partly in section, on the line 3-3 ofFig. '1.

Figure4 is a vertical sectional side View on the line 4-4 of Fig. 1.

The machine'is mounted on a main frame preferably secured to thefioor orother base support by any suitable means such as the lag screws 12.Extending vertically in the machine is an elongated slot whose oppositeguides 18 for cross head 20 vertically reciprocablethereon. Rigidlyattached to this cross head as by a pin 22 is a vertical screw parallelvertical side walls 16 carry threaded member 24 interfitting into thescrew threads 26 formed in a tubular perforation in a rotatable shaft28*journaled in the cross member frame part 30 lying at the upper end ofslot 14. The upper end of this shaft 28 carries a bevelgear 32 meshingwith a bevel pinion 34 on a shaft 36 suitably journaled in verticaluprights 38 rising from a bracket arm 40, secured to the side of block30 by any suitable means as the screws 42. Rigidly mounted on the shaft36 is a pulley 44 lying in the same vertical lane as another pulley 46carried by a sha t 48 journaled in cross head 20. Over thesetwo pulleys44 and 46 and a plurality of other guiding pulleys 50 is a belt 52carrying a vertically reciprocating pulley 54 from which is suspended acounterweight 56 adapted to ,maintain the belt 52 tight regardless ofthe distance apart which the pulleys 44 mechanism between themheretofore described, is adjusted by the rotation of shaft 36 and pinion34.

Between the supports 38, shaft 36 also carries ailarger and wider pulley58 over which photographic phonograph record film or tape 60 passes fromone storage reel as 62 to another: similar reel as 64, the tape in themeantime traveling over intermediate supporting pulleys 66 and 68.

and 46 may be, as the screw too plication the film or tape 60 carries araised record member'ZO having a waving record line 72 formed thereoncapable when engaged by'reproducer bar 74 placed angularly'thereto tonism attached to and manipulated by the bar, an accurate reproduction ofthe sound waves originally impressed upon the record 70. This bar ispivoted at its end 76 which is mostremote from the record 70 to abracket 75 suitably mounted on the frame of the machine. Pivotallyattached to the bar 74 intermediate of its ends as at 78 is a verticallydepending rod 80 guided in a verti cal plane by sliding thru a lug 82also suitably attached to the machine. On the lower end of the rod 80 isalaterally extending needle, knife or other cutter 84 so positioned asto operatively engage a conventional circular disc 86 carrying on itsface adjacent to the needle a wax surfaced pulley .88 adapted to havethe photographic record cut therein by the tool 84. This disc 86 issuitmeans as for instance the ablysecured to the shaft 48 by anysuitable clamping disc 89 and the hand nut 90 adapted to permit readyremoval of the disc 86 whenthe recording operation is completedon thewax 88 thereon'and the substitution therefor of another disc ready forthe making of a new record.

The pitch of; the screw device 24'Q6 is such that as the disc 86 isrotated the resulting record line cut in the wax 88 by needle 84 willtake the spiral form well understood in the disc phonographic art.

In theo eration of thedevice the parts are assemb ed as shown in thedrawings.

not shown applied to a pulley 920m the end of shaft 36 tothereby-causethe machine to operate to cause the photographic record topass under the bar 74 thereby causing the sound record represented bythe line 72 to be communicated to the bar and rod and the needle 84which cuts a wavy line in 'the wax 88 conforming to the motion re ceivedfrom the record line 72. As the shaft 36 rotates it causes shaft 28 torotate andpulls screw 24 and cross head 20 and attached bar upward justa sufficient amount so that the record line formed by needle 84 isspiral as described,.the weight 56 keeping belt 52 tight so that thereis no lost motion in the device. The operation described is continueduntil the wax 88 on the disc 86 is made into a complete record whereuponthe-disc may be removed and a new one substituted.

By lifting the right hand end of bar 74 against the tension of spring94: which normally holds it on the record line 72. the operatorcanreadily remove the original record tape 60 from the machine andsubstitute another one.

give off thru proper mecha support and two movements Having thusdescribed my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure byLetters Patent is;

1. In a phonographic record reproducing machine, a support for anundulated record, a support for a record blank on which the undulationsof the record are to be reproduced, means for simultaneously imparting asingle movement to one support and two movements to the other support,and means adapted to be operated by movement of a supported record toreproduce the undulations thereof on a supported record blank duringmovement of the latter.

2. In a phonographic record reproducing machine. a record support, asupport for a record blank, means for simultaneously imparting a singlemovement to said record to the support for a record blank, operated by arecord carried by and moving in harmony with said record support toreproduce said record on a record blank during movements of the latterin harmony with its support.

3. In a phonographic record reproducing machine, means for supporting anundulated strip record and imparting a single movement thereto, atwo-movement support for a record blank on which the undulations of thestrip record are to be reproduced, means between the supports foreffecting one of the movements of the two-movement support, and meansoperated by movement of a supported undulated strip record to reproducethe undulations thereof on the blank during k movements of the latter.The power is appl ed to themachine at any convenient point. as forinstance thru a belt 4. In a phonographic record reproducing machine, asupport for an undulated record. a support for a record blank on -whichthe undulations of said record are to be reproand means adapted to beduced, means for simultaneously imparting a single movement to onesupport and two movements to the other support, and means adapted to beoperated by movement of an undulated record carried bysaid recordsupport to reproduce the undulations thereof on the record blank duringmovements of the latter, said means comprising a bar having one endpivoted and engaged at a point remote from its pivot with the undulatedrecord, an arm connected with saidbar between its pivot and the point ofengagement there of with the undulated record, and a stylus carried bysaid arm and engaging the record blank on which the undulations are tobe reproduced.

In witness whereof, I scribed my name in the nesses.

have hereunto subpresence of two wit- HOWARD L. PAGE.

Witnesses:

DWIGHT B. (lemma, CHARLES M. Pawn.

